Vision, Tasks, and Results.

Project Overview

With global urbanization trends, the demands for tall residential and mixed-use buildings in the range of 8~20 stories are increasing. One new structural system in this height range are tall wood buildings which have been built in select locations around the world using a relatively new heavy timber structural material known as cross laminated timber (CLT). The Vision of this project is to develop and validate a seismic design methodology for tall wood buildings that incorporates high-performance structural and nonstructural systems and can quantitatively account for building resilience. This design methodology will be validated through a series of full-scale shaking table tests of a 10-story CLT building specimen at the world's largest outdoor shake table at NHERI@UCSD.

This project builds on existing research and engineering knowledge on mass-timber construction and performance-based design. The scope of this project is summarized in the following figure:

Research in Progress

This research project includes nine (9) major Tasks illustrated below. The progress on these tasks will be updated on this site as the project progresses:

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This research project is supported by the National Science Foundation through a number of collaborative awards including: CMMI 1636164, CMMI 1634204, CMMI 1635363, CMMI 1635227, CMMI 1635156, CMMI 1634628. The use of NHERI experimental facility is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Program.